It is almost impossible to single out the best song from the long list of Mehdi's super-hits. However, Radio Pakistan's renowned announcer, Azim Sarwar, had relegated "Elahi Aansoo bhari zindagi kisi ko na day" as the number one song of Mehdi Hasan, in the mid - eighties .

Moreover, in an interview to Radio Pakistan's compere, Taj Bakht, which was broadcast twice between 1985-87, Mehdi Hasan had dealt, at length, his continuous efforts to bring quality in the songs and ghazals.